printer friendly pageFRENLIT 148: Outsiders, Conspirators, and the Masses: 19th-Century French Fiction
The emergence of new social types in nineteenth-century fiction. Questions: How do groups differentiate themselves? Which groups are heroized and which are villainized? Who belongs and who doesn't? Topics include social climbers, dandies, philosophers, the poor, students, criminals, actresses, crowds, and the bourgeoisie. Authors include Balzac, Stendhal, Sue, Nerval, Vigny, Flaubert, Zola. Taught in French.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
FRENLIT 189A: Honors Research
Senior honors students enroll for 5 units in Winter while writing the honors thesis, and may enroll in 189B for 2 units in Spring while revising the thesis. Prerequisite:
DLCL 189.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Edelstein, D. (PI)
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Gumbrecht, H. (PI)
;
Harrison, R. (PI)
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Instructors:
Edelstein, D. (PI)
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Gumbrecht, H. (PI)
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Harrison, R. (PI)
;
Landy, J. (PI)
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Mudimbe-Boyi, E. (PI)
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Nakata, C. (PI)
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Schnapp, J. (PI)
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Wittman, L. (PI)
FRENLIT 189B: Honors Research
Open to juniors with consent of adviser while drafting honors proposal. Open to senior honors students while revising honors thesis. Prerequisites for seniors: 189A,
DLCL 189.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2
FRENLIT 199: Individual Work
Restricted to French majors with consent of department. Normally limited to 4-unit credit toward the major. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-12
| Repeatable
for credit
FRENLIT 202: Inventing the Enlightenment
How the idea of the Enlightenment emerged in French intellectual circles, and how it evolved over the course of the eighteenth century. Focus in particular on the articulation between the Enlightenment and its two most illustrious precursors: the Scientific Revolution and the grand siècle. Readings include texts by Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, d¿Alembert, Rousseau, Hume, and Kant.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Edelstein, D. (PI)
FRENLIT 250: When Poets Write Prose: 20th-Century French Poetry
Liberated from traditional forms and rhythms in the 19th century, poetry as an open field for exploration and self-redefinition in the 20th century. The poem as a fixed form, obsolete or artificial, endangers poetry as a privileged gate to truth, presence, ethics, or an authentic relation to the world. How in times of suspicion over the powers and failures of language, prose becomes the only truthful medium to approach a poetic essence beyond poetry. Readings include Mallarmé, René Char, Yves Bonnefoy, Philippe Jaccottet, Jacques Dupin, Jacques Réda, and literary critics.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Alduy, C. (PI)
FRENLIT 252: Theater of the Absurd
The theater of the absurd as an evolving commentary on modern alienation and attempt to make a humorous yet philosophical peace with it through the concreteness of performance. Authors include Jarry, Marinetti, Pirandello, Salacrou, Cocteau, Camus, and Sartre.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Wittman, L. (PI)
FRENLIT 278: Special Topics (Francophone Literature): From Exoticism to a Discourse of Auto-Representation (AFRICAST 278)
Critical analysis of major issues relating to literatures in French language in and outside France. Focus is on exoticism and and self-representation, with an emphasis on the evolution of mentalities, new sensitivities and the role of literature in developing individual or collective identity. Readings include Le Clézio, Memmi, Malouf, Lopes, Schwarz-Bart, Delaygue, Glissant, Todorov, Kane and others. Primary sources, secondary sources and film. Taught in French.
Instructors:
Mudimbe-Boyi, E. (PI)
FRENLIT 293A: Topics in French Literature and Philosophy
Five-week course. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Serres, M. (PI)
FRENLIT 293B: Topics in French Literature and Philosophy
Five-week course. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Serres, M. (PI)
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